Don’t Bite the Pavement is clone of another mechanical game from Tony called Kongman. Game play vaguely resembles the video game Kong I suppose, but it’s all mechanical. There are buttons to punch activate pinball-like levers, and a battery that runs some of the steppers and the swinging guy on the top. You have to maneuver a metal ball through various stages all the way up to the top. Earlier on there are opportunities to get the timing wrong and have the ball return all the way to the beginning of the puzzle, but it seems like once you get past a certain point you’re pretty safe. If you do get to the end, the ball is returned to the star anyway. Kongman came out in 1982, but I’m not sure about Don’t Bite the Pavement. My guess is a little later because they were probably figuring out what to do with unsold stock.
– Thanks to Wesley for the pics
The art style of this looks so familiar that I’d swear I’ve seen this before already, but I couldn’t find it on the admittedly poorly organized mess that is my hard drive.
Here’s the original Kongman game.
A couple bonus pics: First, the box artificially squared, and a random shot from an auction. Kongman goes for upward of $250, while the less desirable Pavement ranges from $75-$150.
Game play video,
Check out this video of a Don’t Bite the Pavement restoration
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Kilwag
Well this is funny. I while digging through my basement getting ready for a skate swap, I discovered I already had this game, buried in sea of plastic tubs filled with skate toy ephemera.